Fariello/Ileri
The duo was born in summer 2009 in Istanbul. Eren uses only prerecorded
alto saxophone samples, and Dario plays with/on/in/under it in real-time.
Touching the vinyl controller the tone becomes scratch, leaving we are back
to the sax, but in a different part of the composition! So the dj plays rhythmically
with this switch possibility: scratch and re-composition, superimposing voices.
After some concerts and some private sessions the "sound bank" evolved: they
went back to the studio and recorded more material: long sounds made for
scratching, wind sections, static soundscapes and multi-layer compositions.soundcloud.com/erenileridariofariello

Rui Faustino was born in 1975 in Algarve, Portugal. He has been playing
the drums since 1990. In 1994 he started his academical formation. He studied
classical percussion for three years at EPME. After that he moved on to the Jazz
drumset which took him to Lisbon to study at HCP, and later to Berlin where
he was a guest both at HfM Hans Eisler and UdK Berlin. Rui lives since 2000
between Berlin and Lisbon and has been working with musicians radicated in
both countries. He also made music for theater, dance, circus and film.rui-faustino.comDuoAgnes Palier (Paris) – VoiceOlivier Toulemonde (Berlin/France) – Acoustic Objectswww.agnes-palier.netwww.olivier-toulemonde.comTrio Anat Cohavi (Berlin/Israel) – Bass clarinetGeorge Donchev (Berlin/Bulgaria) – Double bassAndrea Sanzvela (Berlin/Spain) – Violawww.anat-cohavi.comgeorgedonchev.weebly.comwww.myspace.com/andreasanzvela

Okkyung Lee:
after being in music schools from age of 3 to 25, korean cellist/improviser/composer
Okkyung Lee finally found her artistic freedom in New York's lower east side where
she moved in 2000.
Since then, she has performed and recorded with numerous artists such as Laurie
Anderson, Lotte Anker, Derek Bailey, Kjell Bjørgeengen, Carla Bozulich, John Butcher,
Nels Cline, Chris Corsano, Sylvie Courvoisier, Carlos Giffoni, John Hollenbeck, Vijay Iyer,
Lindha Kallerdahl, Andrew Lampert, Christian Marclay, Min Xiao-Fen, Thurston Moore,
Ikue Mori, Lawrence D. "butch" Morris, Jim O'rourke, Evan Parker, Keith Rowe, Wadada
Leo smith, Tyshawn Sorey, Skuli Sverrisson,C Spencer Yeh and John Zorn to name a few.
In 2011, her second album Noisy Love Songs on Tzadik will be released in march. followed
by limited edition LP Anicca with phil minton on Dancing Wayang later in april. Okkyung
also recorded a trio album with Evan Parker and Peter Evans and also a duo with Paul
Lytton to be released on psi later in 2011.okkyunglee.com

Matija Schellander
* 1981, is an Austrian double bass player and electronic musician living in Vienna and Berlin.
He has performed improvised music in Austria, Slovenia, Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary,
France, Italy and has composed pieces for his own groups as well as commisioned pieces for
the Jazzwerkstatt Wien Workshop Ensemble, ChoreographersAkemi Takeya, visual artist
Meina Schellander, Vocal Ensemble Hortus Musicus, Zur Wachauerin….
Schellanders regular projects include: Duos Rdeča Raketa with Maja Osojnik and with
turntablist dieb13, trio Second Sound (Schellander/Bruckner-Weinhuber/Malatesta) and the
Low Frequency Orchestra (Osojnik/Castelló/Grill/Schellander).matija.klingt.orgTelling stories about trees:
Is a Norwegian/Italian collaboration that stems from a night in Rome where
Bluefaced People(Skaset/Moe) shared the bill with a Renato Ciunfrini project.
The musicians became mutual aware of each other and decided to meet in
Norway to play and experiment togheter.
Feeling confident about their music in the cold and dark city of Oslo, they decided
to continue the collaboration and tour Italy toghether. After two weeks of touring
the music had begun to grow in new directions, and started to get a inner substance
and form far beyond improvisation.
The mixture of the acoustic instruments with a slow and mechanical, almost
electronic approach, makes the music sometimes harsh and rigid. But with
spontaneous transitions into smoother and more sporadic melodic passages,
the music gets the life and nourishment to continue to grow into new areas.
Within the layers of friction overlapped with airy textures and the focus on
contrasts, the musicians seeks to reveal a deep duality in the music.conradsound.com/music/telling-stories-about-treesMassimo Falascone (Milano) – Saxophone & Electronicshttp://www.massimofalascone.comJohn Hughes (Hamburg/USA) – Double Basshttp://soundcloud.com/john-hughes-bassistNicolas Wiese (Berlin) – Electronicshttp://www.nicolaswiese.com

Massimo Falascone:Born in Milan on a quiet winter's day.Elsewhere in the world, Glenn Gould publishes the "Goldberg Variations",Thelonious Monk is about to record "Brilliant Corners", John Cage composes"Radio Music". Soon Ornette Coleman will lose his job as an elevator boy ina department store. He's been playing his plastic saxophone for two years andthere are still four to go before "Free Jazz".MF hardly remembers those days. Would catch up later on.In the late fall of 1968 listening to the radio from the back seat of his father’s car,he is confirmed that "Hey Jude" is for another week at the lead of the "Hit Parade".That single and that group from Liverpool will mark his existence. He quicklylearns to play the guitar.In the mid 70s he’s given the book "Jazz" by Arrigo Polillo. It’ll be the beginningof the end.Today he plays various saxophones and live electronics. He composes electroacousticmusic. He has played with lots of musicians and has recorded several discs. Createdgroups, orchestras and associations. He improvises, writes music for the theater,documentaries and installations. He teaches, conducts workshops and masterclasses on improvisation and writing.John Hughes:Studied music at Montgomery Community College, Rockville,Maryland. Lives in Hamburg, Germany since 1998. Plays compositions by Sun Rain Rocket No.9 and his own in Trio Hosho. Long time collaborations with italianpianist Alberto Braida in Duo Mobile and with Lars Scherzberg and Jeff Arnalin Tripwire. Releases on schraum, Oaksmus, Generate Records, creative sources, brokenresearch, blue pearls music. Nicolas Wiese:Audiovisual artist living in Berlin.

Audrey Chen is a Chinese-American musician and performance artist born outside of
Chicago in 1976. Using the cello, voice and analog electronics, Chen’s work focuses on the
combination and layering of traditional and extended techniques. A large component of
her music is improvised and her approach to this is often extremely personal and visceral.
Her performance work incorporates sound, movement and visual/sculptural concepts.
Chen performs solo and in collaboration with a wide number of musicians and dancers.Bilwaworks in both theperforming and visual arts contexts. His electronic music andsound art often involve the abstraction of source material such as dancers’ breath and body
sounds, acoustic musicians, and audio frequency feedback—sonicrelics through which he
pulls elements of specific spaces, times, and interactions into his work. He is interested
insensory perception and subjectivity, and his work documentsthose acts of decipherment.
He often uses multiple speakers placed throughout a space, generating a sensory
environmentrich in ambient, rhythmic, and spatial sound.KAMAMA is the duo project of Audrey Chen and Berlin based percussionist Luca Marini.http://www.myspace.com/kamamaband/music

Eyal Maoz, solo performer, composer, ensembles leader, Tzadik and
Ayler Records artist and a guest member of John Zorn’s Cobra,
performed solo in New York City, Tel Aviv, China, Vienna, Kino Center
at Ebensee, Austria, and London. Based in New York City , his ensemble
Edom just released a new album at the Radical Jewish Culture series at
Tzadik Records. His ensembles performed at major music festivals
worldwide such as the Montreal Jazz Festival, Red Sea International
Jazz Festival, NYC 2007 Winter JazzFest, the New York Jewish Music
and Heritage Festival, Florida Music Harvest, The Jewzapalooza
Festival in NYC and more. He was featured on MTV and NPR.eyalmaozmusic.com/live

\'liminal space\', a place where boundaries dissolve a little and
we stand there, on the threshold, getting ourselves ready to move
across the limits of what we were into what we are to be.
\'liminal space\': a space of transformation between phases of
separation and reincorporation.
Liminal spaces are ambiguous and ambivalent, they slip between
global market and local place, between public use and private value,
between work and home, between commerce and culture.

Margriet KicksAss (NL)Rauschmaschine:
This interactive sound-sculpture is a former archive-cupboard, and sounds like
the engine-room of a ship.
It's based on resonance and produces sounds from a big auditieve spectrum.
With clean frequencies the whole unit becomes alive and starts to quake.
Different loose iron objects, which are fixed on the unit, are following this movement.
The quaking objects are amplified by mics. So you can feel and hear the physical energy.
Visitors are invited to explore hidden sounds.margrietkicks-ass.nl

Founded in April 1996, martiensgohome is a sound collective whose primary
outlet is radio. Operating at the crossroad between radio drama and improvised
electronic music, it has been present on the airwaves of Brussels, on radio campus,
without interruption since its first broadcast. Instant sound scape, musique concrete
sauvage, martiensgohome's music is first and foremost a celebration of the sound
spectrum, from the roughest noise to the tiniest resonance.
Through personnel changes, regular or occasional guests, game plays, specific
side-projects, the collective has always maintained a constant renewal, that justifies
its longevity. They keep on challenging themselves, through arbitrary rules, codes and
unusual playing formulas, in order to preempt any restraint, any sclerosis, and be able
to pursue the highest possible creative freedom.
Their music is based on an attention for the microscopic details of their sound
environment, from the overlooked specifics of our everyday life to the character of
more complex soundscapes. The recordings they collect every week on the field are
the edited, treated and confronted to each others' findings.
The collective is currently composed of four persons. Their performances are
spontaneous and site-specific, taking into account the place, its character and atmosphere.

martiensgohome is operating on the radio every thursday 8:30pm on radio campus107.2,
in brussels (streaming: modem - adsl)

Lin Chi-Wei: Born in Taipei, Taiwan, now living in Beijing, Lin Chi-Wei has been
one of the pioneers of experimental and noise music in Taiwan. He has been a
member of ZLSO (Zero and Sound Liberation Organization) from the early 1990's.
He studied cultural anthropology on the issue of temple architecture, taoism ritual
and music and later media art.
In 2010 he became an invited professor of Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology.
As a multimedia artist, he has published audio and video works and has been
involved in solo and group exhibitions.
Site : http://www.linchiwei.com/
Video : http://www.linchiwei.com/archives/556
Ballon Music : http://www.linchiwei.com/archives/464

C-drik: Born in Lubumbashi, Congo, now living in Berlin, C-drík started to
play experimental and noise music in 1989 while living in Belgium. He studied
electro-acoustic music and started his own label Syrphe, mostly focused on
producing experimental and electronic music from Asia and Africa as well
as some of his projects.
He performed across Europe, the Middle East, the Far East, North America
and North Africa, playing solo or collaborating with other artists.
Site : http://www.syrphe.com/projects/c_drik/c_drik.html
Video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LPwOnji1Kc

Ernesto Rodrigues (born in Lisbon, August 29, 1959) is a Portuguesecomposer, violinist, violist and electronic musician. Rodrigues has been
playing the violin for 30 years and in that time has played all genres of
music ranging from contemporary music to free jazz and free improvisation,
in the studio and live around the world. He created the record label Creative
Sources Recordings in 1999, which mainly concentrates on releasing
experimental and electro-acoustic music. He is also known as a painter.
[...]
He has created music for films, dance, performance, and video.
Has also worked with contemporary dancers like Mário Calixto, Manuela
Cipriano, Ana Galan, Valérie Métivier and Andresa Soares.
Trio:Michael Vorfeld (Berlin/DE) - percussionLou Mallozzi (Chicago/USA) - electronics, voice, tapesChris Heenan (Berlin/USA) - contrabass clarinetvorfeld.orgloumallozzi.comchrisheenan.com

Lou Mallozzi (b. 1957) is an audio artist in Chicago who dismembersand reconstitutes sound, language, gesture, and image in various media.He works in live performance, radio art, sound installation, CD recording,soundtrack design, and visual art. He has presented works at numerousfestivals, concerts, galleries, and broadcasts since 1986.

Ap’strophe is the duo of Ferran Fages and Dimitra Lazaridou Chatzigoga.
They began working together in 2006, when Ferran Fages recorded “Cançons
per a un lent retard”. At that time he collaborated with Dimitra Lazaridou
Chatzigoga in the track Paraula clau, which they composed and interpreted
together. After recording the album they realized the impossibility of
re-interpreting this piece, which is based on the detuning(s) of the guitar,
but decided to continue working together and started to search for a common
sonoric space. The result of this survey gave shape to their present collaboration,
which consists of a duo of acoustic guitar and zither. With their music they
investigate the perception of the distinctive timbre of the guitar and the zither
alongside the differences and similarities of their string instruments. Their
approximation combines the acoustic with the electronic in the sense that they
employ frequencies produced by their acoustic notes together with sounds
produced by electronic means.

Berlin improvisers Dörner (trumpet) and Hawyard (tuba) are joined by
Argentinian reedsman Lucio Capece in 2004 to form the trio known asKammerlärm (chambernoise). Together they create a non-narrative music
that evinces a strict reserve with respect to 'self-expression,' an acute awareness
of the materiality of their instruments, a sustained exploration of the possibilities
of instrumental playing. Their first full-length release as a trio (Azul discografica,
2007) is culled from two recording sessions at Dörner's home in 2005.
An intensely disciplined music, within whose spaces, gestures, and silences, unfolds
a finely textured sound-world that rewards deep, repeat listening.

Radu Malfatti's fordan (written for Dan Warbuton) gently and
persistently probes the listener's perceptions of time and space,
with a minimal of distractions from physically tangible sonic materials.
This sense of timing and space is further explored and exploited in
Annette Kreb's site-specific composition for solo performer. The
sounds associated with Quiet Cue and the Staalplaat environs are
considered as viable sonic palette - in a sense, the place becomes
the score.

Most people will typically associate the set-up of one man and his guitar
with folk music. For Microphonics, however, Dirk Serries, the creative force
behind vidnaObmana and Fear Falls Burning, has his mind set to different
horizons. Equipped with nothing but a Gibson Les Paul, a few effect pedals
and a tube amplifier, he turns clubs, art galleries, unusual performance sites
and concert houses into intimate spaces of sonic echoes and shimmering
overtones. Allowing for the music to grow from the moment, each performance
is unique and makes full use of the ambiance and acoustic characteristics of
a venue. You can see Serries 'capturing' his own reflections and sending
back replies, twisting and turning his guitar to shape the air around it.Mecha/Orga
(Yiorgis Sakellariou, Greece)mecha-orga.com Sonata Rec
(Heidrun Schramm, Germany)heidrunschramm.netAsmus Tietchens
(Germany)tietchens.deEvapori
(Oliver Peters, Germany)evapori.virb.comGregory Buettner
(Germany)tausend-fuessler.de Hanna Hartman
(Germany/Sweden)hannahartman.de Andrea Parkins (New York City)
electric accordion, objects and electronicsandreaparkins.com myspace.com/andreaparkins
solo
and trio withOkkyung Lee (New York City)
cellookkyunglee.comAndrea Neumann (Berlin)info a. neumann

Andrea Parkins is a sound/installation artist, composer, and
electroacoustic/interactive electronics performer internationally acclaimed
for her uniquely gestural and textural approach to her electronically-processed
accordion and customized live sound processing. Described by The New York
Times Steve Smith, as a “sound-ist” and beyond category as a performer and
musician, she creates with her laptop electronics and Fender-amped accordion
an intense and visceral sonic world, full of lush harmonics, noisy concretized
disruption, and soaring electronic feedback.

Michael received his Doctorate in Musical Arts (DMA) in composition from theUniversity of Illinois, the Masters of Music (MM) from Michigan State Universityand the Bachelors of Arts (BA) from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. From1996 to 1999, Michael was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the National Center for Voiceand Speech, where he conducted research on voice science for his book, the 21stCentury Voice (http://www.scarecrowpress.com/).

Matthias Bauer:Born in Sonneberg / Thüringen 1959. Studied doublebass at the Hochschule fürMusik, East Berlin until 1980. Apart from work in music ensembles ranging fromcontemporary classical to free improvisation, is a central concern with experimentalmusic-theater, dance projects, work with live poetry and his own solo performancesincorporating the voice. After lengthy residencies in Lyon (1980-88) and Cologne,he returnd to Berlin in 1991 and has since been active as an improviser, performingwith the likes of Shelley Hirsch, David Moss, Tony Oxley, Sven Ake Johansson,Jon Rose, Chris Cutler a.o. He has performed specially composed solo works byGeorg Katzer, Lothar Voigtländer and helmut Oehring. He is also active as acomposer for improvising musicians.

Workshop:

Michael Edward Edgerton – Extra-Normal Vocal Technique

The workshop will focus on methods of voice production,
based on certain aspects of physiology and acoustics, drawinginfluences from nonwestern music as well as western avantgardetraditions.The training will be focused on techniques to explore the biodiversityof sound production, and to expand the limits of the voice, as not allpotential has been reached.No previous experience necessary.

Olivier Toulemonde plays improvised music with acoustic objects
or amplified springs. He works on listening, sound research and
relationship between sound and space.
In 1993, he was a co-founder of "Collectif Ishtar" (in Bourg-en-Bresse)
together with 20 other musicians and dancers. A year later, he joined
"Collectif et Compagnie" (in Annecy), where he first started working
with electro-acoustic music.

Swiss accordion player, electronic musician and composer Jonas Kocher
was born in 1977. He studied at the Hochschule der Künste Bern with
Teodoro Anzellotti (accordion), Pierre Sublet and Georges Aperghis
(théâtre musical). He played in various projects by Ruedi Häusermann
and Daniel Ott.
He currently plays in many improvised music projects in Switzerland
and Europe as accordion player and electronic musician.

Juan Parra Cancino

#1: "KVSwalk_SOLO"
Computer and analog electronics.
Duration: 20"

KVSwalk_SOLO aims to research the possibilities and limitations
of physicality and embodied musicality in computer music performance.
The musical structure is centered around the metaphoric imaginary,
as well as sonic derivatives of the Karman Vortex Street phenomena.
For its ensemble version, a set of 'high-order parameters' were defined
for each performer, favoring timbre variation and texture density control
over pitch and articulation variety.
KVSwalk_SOLO is a solo computer version of a piece commissioned by the
Orpheus Institute in Gent and the International Music Council premiered
by the ORCiM ensemble and Chris Chafe (CCRMA) the Orpheus Research
Centre in Music Festival on September 16, 2010.
The Solo version features a mixed setup consisting of an analog/digital
sound-generation engine and a custom controller that demands from its
performer to use physical gestures derived from a variety of 'traditional'
musical instruments.

#2: "PLP_Berlin"
Electric Guitar and Live Electronics.
Duration: 25"

PLP_Berlin is part of a series of works focusing on new lectures given to
traditional music conventions, particularly on the use of a notation system
that will help to spawn the exploratory process between traditional and
electronic musical instruments. The organizational backbone of these
works is derived from the concept of "timbre networks" an overall structural
composition strategy devised by the composer, aimed to design high order
parameters in live electronic music.
The first piece of this series was PLP_I , a collaboration with violinist Mieko
Kanno. Furher versions include collaborations with guitarist Santiago Lascurain,
Contrabassist Brice Soniano, percussionist Toma Gouband and solo performances
with Electric Guitar in Fukuoka, Nagoya (JP), Santiago (CL) and Montreal (CAN).

Juan Parra Cancino (b. Chile, 1979)
Studied Composition in the Catholic University of Chile and Sonology at
The Royal Conservatory of The Hague (NL)
As a guitarist he was part of several ensembles related to Guitar Craft,
a school founded by Robert Fripp.
He collaborates regularly with artists like Frances Marie Uitti, Richard Craig,
KLANG and Insomnio Ensembles.juanparrac.com

KRK, founded in 2005 by George Cremaschi and Matthew Ostrowski,
has devoted itself to a muscular integration of electronic and acoustic
soundworlds, drawing on their more than 40 years of combined experience
working in a variety of genres. Their concise, spontaneous compositions
unite formal tautness with a fierce yet controlled energy, melding real-time
musique concrete with virtuosic extended technique to open up undiscovered
spaces in electro-acoustic performance. Building on their experience,
with more than 60 concerts in over a dozen countries to their credit, KRK
continues to innovate and redefine contemporary improvisational practice.

KLS
The musical communication between Klammer, Lettow and Scherzberg
is sensitive and fragile. Introverted, almost quiet passages and eruptive
moments alternate. The game with different dynamics and volume levels is
an important aspect of the joint playing process.
[...]

Saxophone players Martin Küchen and Lucio Capece have been working
their instruments in a similar way since several years. Going extreme into
the use of objects in contact with the sax, in a way that the saxophone and
the object become one thing, The line between the show instrument and
the life object becomes unclear, and the music digs in the intensity of
perpetual everyday time.
Küchen has developed a remarkable solo work, as well as a celebrated trio
with Keith Rowe and Seymour Wright, among several other projects.
He also works in the area of committed new free jazz .

Lucio Capece has been working in the last years focusing in the developing of
minimal improvised music playing in several occasions with Radu Malfatti
among other artists, In another vein he is part of a celebrated highly focused
visceral work with Mika Vainio. He performs his own solo pieces based in
a subtle work in his usual instruments , plus Sruti Box and a few analog
electronic devices.luciocapece.blogspot.commartinkuchen.com

Tetsuya Hori,
born in Sapporo / Hokkaido, Japan, started playing the organ at age of four and
started composing. At age of 12 began studying the piano and two years later
started playing in various jazz ensembles. He started studying composition in
Sapporo at the age of 16 war later continued with composition studies at the
Showa University of Music in Tokyo. He graduated in 2001 (at the age of 21),
winning a special prize from the university. From 2000 to 2003 he was a
lecturer for piano, vocal, and orchestra. In 2003 he moved to Berlin where
he lives and composes.tetsuyahori.com

you.are.here
A collaborative sound project from Luke Munn and Johnny Chang,
exploring the sounds of spaces with site-specific performance, recordings,
and activations.

Johnny Chang: a violinist and composer based in Berlin, Germany,
Chang studied composition and experimental music with Michale Pisaro,
Mark Menzies and James Tenney. johnnychchang.blogspot.com

Luke Munn is a Berlin based sound-artist whose work incorporates
performance, composition, and interdisciplinary projects. His practice
centres around re-activating, and re-presenting real world sound -
from the architecture of a space, to objects donated from the audience
and field recordings. lukemunn.com

Semerssuaq are WJ Meatball (Jealousy Party, Sistemi Audiofobici Burp)
and JD Zazie (B Unit, Sistemi Audiofobici Burp).
The freeform Cut’ n Roll duo was born in Florence at the end of the 90’s
at the Soul Limbo Studio based in C.P.A. Fi-Sud. From that improvised,
freeform/rock and electronic music scene, they developed their technique
manipolating sound using basically dj tools.
In 2010 they started the parallel project Semerssuaq XL
with Agnese Fortuna (text) and Veronica Citi (video).womenbeings: words in contexts integrates the live act with text
and visuals. Sonic distortions and modulations in extemporary processing
with short video pieces concerning tales of everyday tensions between
affective language and languages of professional context.

Seiji Morimoto - born in Tokyo 1971, studied musicology at theKunitachi College of Music, graduating in 1996. During this period he beganto play the electronic pieces by John Cage and his own sound performances.seijimorimoto.com

Artificial History Museum:
»About the value and evolution of aesthetics,
tradition vs. progress, individual versus mass
perception, and the dialectical struggle between
the desire to de-instrumentalize aesthetic signifiers
and the desire to re-instrumentalize them.
One musician's attempt to answer the question:
now that everything has been deconstructed,
why construct anything?«

racking:
»During the piece's 22 minutes, the right hand
marks a very slow metrum, giving an accentuated
rhythm, as well as room for resonance. The tuning
of the guitar is slighty different than usual, and
there are 5 objects of preparation attached. These
are exactly determined in their positions. In the course
of the piece, the preparation is shiftly and removed in
a precise order, and single strings are being slighty
detuned. By these alterations, the sound of the guitar
becomes slowly more and more "guitar-like" –
all done without effects or electronics.«Los Glissandinos:Klaus Filip (Wien) – Sine wavesKai Fagaschinski(Berlin) – Clarinetlosglissandinos.klingt.org

Bill Hsu (San Francisco) –
interactive computer music and animation

Playing two short audiovisual live sets with special guestsChris Heenan (Berlin/USA) – contrabass clarinetLothar Ohlmeier (Berlin) – bass clarinet and saxophone